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Maharajapuram Ramachandran , Nadasurabhi Monthly concert at Heritage Academy Hall 17 Jan 2010 January 18, 2010

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Vocal : Maharajapuram Ramachandran

Violin :  M S Govindaswamy

Mrudangam : Arjunkumar

Ganjira : Guruprasanna

Songlist:

01 intha chalamu – bEgaDa – Veena Kuppaiyer ( O,S )

02 shiva thrayamahAgaNapatim – nAtta – Swarna Venkatesha Dikshitar

03 rAma nannu brOvara – harikAmbOji – Thyagaraja ( N,S )

     neraval & swara @’ meppulakai kannatAvu nappu baDaga

04 SEshAchala nAyakam – varALi – Muthuswami Dikshitar ( A,N,S )

       neraval & swara @’ aravinda patra nayanam gOvindam  uraga Sayanam

05 mundu vENuka – darbAr – Thyagaraja  ( A )

06 himAchala tanaya – Anandabhairavi – Shyama Shastri

07 nidhi chAla sukhamA -kalyANi – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S,T )

      neraval&Swara @ ‘ mamata bandhana yuta narastuti sukhamA

08 kshIrAbdhi kannigE – rAgamAlika – Purandara Dasa

09 gOvindA ninna nAmavE chandA – jana sammOdini – Purandara Dasa

10 chinnanchiru kiLiyE – rAgamAlila -  Subramanya Bharati

11 sutrum vizhi chudar tAn, kaNNamma – rAgamAlika – Subramanya Bharati

12 tALattu pADum enthen madhuragAnam kEttu – nIlAmbari – Krishnadasan ??

13 viruttam ( pettra tAi) – rEvathi

       bhO shambhO SivashambhO – rEvathi – Dayananda Saraswati

14 mangaLam – saurAshtram,madhyamAvathi – Thyagaraja

Maharajapuram Ramachandran presented a nice concert yesterday at the Heritage Academy hall, for Nadasurabhi.  I was especially delighted to listen to three neravals today ( being a sucker for neravals) and each were very good. The alapana for varAli, darbAr and the main kalyAni were brilliant. However, I felt the main Kalyani was rushed through during neraval and swaras. Arjun kumar, providing the usual exhilaration to the concert, did a nice tani avartanam with Guruprasanna. Govindaswamy too chipped in with some innovations , especially during the post main krithis.

A beautiful evening of Music by Sri Ramachandran and the team.

Dr.Varadarangan, Unnati Centre, 03 Jan 2010 January 3, 2010

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Vocal : Dr. Varadarangan

Violin : Dr.Jyothsna Srikanth

Mrudangam : Arjunkumar

Songlist:

01 vanajAksha ninnE kOri ( varNam) – mandAri – Mysore Vasudevacharya  ( O )   * edited after the confirmation by Sri Raghavan

02 srI mahAgaNapathE – nAtta – Mayuram Viswanatha Shastri ( A,S )

03 bhajarE rE mAnasa – AbhEri – Mysore Vasudevacharya ( A)

04 vENugAna lOluni – kEdAragauLa – Thyagaraja ( A )

05 nE pogaDakuNTE – shubhapantuvarALi – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S )

       neraval & swara @ ‘nIraja nayana shrI tyAgarAjanuta bAluDagu

06 guruguha swAminin bhaktim karOmi – bhAnumati – Muthuswami Dikshitar ??

07 pAlinchu kAmAkshi – madhyamAvathi – Shyama Shastri ( A,N,S,T )

       neraval & swara @ ‘ kAntamagu pEru ponditivi kAruNya mUrti

08 enna thavam seidhanai – kApi – Papanasam Sivan

09 thillAna – miyAn ki malhAr – Mysore R Visweswaran

10 slOkam ( kichinoLagE ..??) – hamsAnandi – Purandara Dasa

       kashta pattaru illa – hamsAnandi – Kanaka Dasa

11 srI chakra rAja – rAgamAlika – Agasthyar

12 mangaLam – saurAshtram – Thyagaraja

      mangaLam kOsalEndra – SrI

 What a way to start the new year !!  My expectations were low, as I haven’t heard his name earlier, but this was one superb concert. Dr.Varadarangan, presented a  sans gimmick, pristine concert of high classisism at the Unnati Center, today morning. Everything one could ask for in the concert was delivered. Few outstanding alapana , especially for AbhEri and madhyamAvathi, some brilliant swaraprasthana for the main raga of the day, interesting neraval for Shubha pantuvarali.  Ths is one of the best Abheri alapana , I’ve heard in recent times.

The concert started with a rare varnam, and the surprice continued till the end. I was expecting the popular ‘ennalu urake’ or sri satyanarayanam’ for Shubhapantuvarali, but was treated with another gem of Thyagaraja. A never heard before ‘bhanumati’  raga( he announced the krithi and raga , attributing it to Muthuswami Dikshitar), and another first of its kind ‘miyAn ki malhAr’ thillana of his guru , to complete the list of unheard pieces.

Violin was adequate in accompanying with few brilliant phrases in madhyamavathi and kedaragaula. Arjunkumar was brilliant throughout, with his usual high enery performance. Overall, a good beginning to my 2010 concert attendance.

Malladi Brothers @ Nadasurabhi Annual Festival 15 Nov 2009 November 16, 2009

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Vocal : Malladi Brothers

Violin : Mysore M Nagaraj

Mrudangam : Arjunkumar

Ganjira : N Amrut

Songlist :

01 sAmi daya jUDa ( varNAm ) -  kEdAragauLa – Thiruvottiyur Thyagayya ( O )

02 yOchanA – darbAr – Thyagaraja ( S )

03 vidulaku mrokkEda – mAyAmALavagauLa – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S )

        neraval & swara @ ‘kamalA gaurI vAgIshvari vidhi’

04 bhajarE rE chitta – kalyANi – Muthuswami Dikshitar  ( S )

05 maNavi naLagincha rAdatE -  naLinakAnthi – Thyagaraja

06 giripai nelakonna – sahAna – Thyagaraja ( A,S,T )

07 RTP -  ranjani  ( ranjanimala rAgamalika swara) -  chatusra jati triputa khanda nadai ??

      ragam & tanam  in Ranjani

      pallavi line ‘ mAmava mahAdEva ranjani pankaja lochani’

      ragamalika swaras in janaranjani, srIranjani , mEgharanjani, sumanEsaranjani, shivaranjani and ranjani

08 rAma rAma rAma sItA rAma ennirO – tilang – Purandara Dasa

09 muddugArE yashOda – kurinji – annamacharya

10 slokam ( vandE shambhu…) – sindhubhairavi

      chandrasEkhara eesha – sindhubhairavi -  Papanasam Sivan

11 patiki hArati rE – surutti – Thyagaraja

      mangaLam kOsalEndra ( slOkam) – madhyamAvathi

Another beautiful concert to end the weeklong Annual Music Festival at Nadasurabhi. One complete concert in evrey aspect. To me, this was one of the most co-ordinated concert between all four participants ( five infact, with two vocalists).

From the humming of the kEdAragaula , it was evident that this is going to be a treat.  The concert picked up with the rarely heard krithi of Thyagaraja in Mayamalavagaula. Sriram explained the krithi and its significance, before the rendering. Neraval and Swara were also very good.  A kalyani krithi and nalinakanthi followed in quick succession, before Ravi started an elaborated alapana in sahAna. Giripai, immortalised by the great MDR was to follow after a brilliant violin return by Mysore Nagaraj. 

Arjunkumar and Amrut both followed superbly throught out, did a fantastic tani avartanam. Amrut, especially  was fantastic. They announced a short pallavi in janaranjaka ‘ranjani mala’. Both alapana and the tanam was good albeit short. As espected a slew of ranjani’s followed one after other in the ragamalika swaras, ending with the raga name.  The concert closed with the usual sets of Purandara Dasa, annamacharya krithis.

Two words on the series. I could attend only 4 of them and I could say that this years series has been a treat to the listeners. Each of the concerts were brilliant ( I heard form others that those I missed were also very good).  Despite the few disruptions ( power , the amplifications), the event hosted out of a new auditorium was pretty decent. There were no dreaded  mid concert speeches. Most of the concerts began on time ( except on Saturday, when Krishna was caught on a traffic jam) and were generally well attended.  A fine effort from the organisers.

T M Krishna @ Nadasurabhi Annual Festival , 14ov 2009 November 15, 2009

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Vocal : T M Krishna

Violin : H K Venkatram

Mrudangam : H S Sudheendra

Ghatam : Giridhar Udupa

Songlist:

01 dEvi pAvanE – sAvEri – Swathi Thirunal ( S )

02 sogasu jUDa taramA – kannaDagauLa – Thyagaraja ( S )

03 kanaka shaila vihAriNi – punnAgavarALi – Shyama Shastri ( A,N )

       neraval @ ‘ shyAmaLAmbikE bhavAbdhi taraNe shyAmakrishNa paripAlini janani ‘

04 sadA tava pAda sannidhim – shaNmukhapriya – Balamuralikrishna

05 RTP – kAdAragauLa -  tisra triputa 4 kaLai

      pallavi line ‘ sArasadaLa nayanA harE srIkrishNa’

      ragamalika swaras in thODi , srIranjini , behAg , jayanthasrI,kEdAragauLA

05b tani Avartanam

06 rAse harimiha vihita vilAsam – rAgamAlika ( mOhanam,vasantha,yamunAkalyANi,sindhubhairavi) – Jayadeva

07 nanda gOpAla – yamunAkalyANi ? – Muthuswami Dikshitar

08 vandEmAtaram – dEsh – Bankim Chandra Chatterji

09 bhujaga shAyinO – yadukula kAmbOji – Swathi Thirunal

An outstanding concert yesterday at the Nadasurabhi festival. T M Krishna the team presented a scintillating concert, depite a small hiccup , in the form of power interruptions and a delayed start.

Concert started with the saveri krithi of Swathi Thirunal. Krishna sang the swaras in 2 speeds alternating between slow and fast paced singing. Initially violing followed the same sequence, later switching to the the opposite, thus making it a slow and fast paced jugalbandi. One could call this a gimmick and against the aesthetics, but I liked it. The kannadagaula krithi was not an often heard krithi, and krishna exlpained that this tala has to be called ’tisra chapu’ and not rUpakam with some explanations.

Punnagavarali was a surprice. His typical slow and deliberate alapana with longinsh phrases was very good. So was the krithi and the neraval. Outstanding stuff. Shanmukhapriya was the fast paced filler. The disruption of power started as soon as the Shanmukhapriya krithi was over.  However, Krishna did not hesitate to start the alapana of Kedaragaula and what a marvel. H K Venkatram alsohas to play his turn without the help of the amplification. The power was still at bay. With the help of oil lamps and a couple of emergency lights, he started tanam. Luckily power was restored during tanam. Outstanding pallavi followed set to a very very slow talam. The accompaniment , I should say, displayed very good support during this pallavi.

H K Venkatram was very good through out. Sudheendra dn Udupa did their part good, despite too many slow krithis. The tani avartanam too was pretty good.  Post main section was moer to do with the user request, he had received on mail. This was one fantastic concert to the capacity audience.

T N Seshagopalan @ Nadasurabhi Annual Music Festival 11 Nov,2009 November 12, 2009

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Vocal : T N Seshagopalan

Violin : C N Chandrasekharan

Mrudangam : K V Anand

Ganjira : B Purushotham

Songlist :

01 sarasijanAbha (varNam) – kAmbOji – Swathi Thirunal ( S )

02 sAdhinchanE – Arabhi – Thyagaraja

03 ninne nera nammi nAnurA – pantuvarALi – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S )

      neraval & swara @ ‘ vEda shAstra purANa vidyalacE bhEda’

04 budhamAshrayAmi satatam – nAttakurinji - Muthuswamy Dikshitar  ( A , followed by slokam ‘Priyangulika syamam roopena prathimam budham…
soumyam soumya gunobedham’)  * slokam detail from Pramod.

05 soundararAjam  AshrayE – brindAvana sArang – Muthuswamy Dikshitar ( A, S )

06 evvarE rAmayya – gAngEyabhUshaNi – Thyagaraja

07 akshayalinga vibhO – SankarAbharaNam – Muthuswamy Dikshitar ( A,N,S,T )

….

I had to leave at this point. Not sure what was sung post this.

A very good concert by T N Seshagopal yesterday. This time, there was no trouble with voice and it was clear from the varnam itself. He was able to go through all the high octave singing and the low octave with relative ease and at will. Varnam had a set of swara with some 3 kala swara singing.  Sadhinchane was a filler. Pantuvarali was the first alapana and the neraval and swara followed his typical patterns, followed amicably by C N chandrasekharan. Nattakkurinji and brindavana sarang followed with a shorter alapana for the former and a detailed ’superb’ alapana for the latter. Soundararajam was very moving adding some intrinsic and beautiful set of swaras. Gangeyabhushani , now becoming regular in concerts here ( Sanjay taken this up as the main at Malleswaram) had some interesting sangatis at the pallavi line.

Sankarabharanam alapana was superb. The usual full throated high octave alapana to the soft low phrases, the grahabhedam ( I realised only after he returned to the main raga !) , all were there. Chandrasekharan in his return was pretty good too.  I had to leave , when he started the Akshayalinga vibho.. I heard that he had an elaborate rendering of the krithi.

Apart from my early departure, the other issue was to do with the audio. There was some issue of clarity and the voice was not decipherable at times. The organisers on their part wsa taking feedback from variuos corners and did try to get this corrected to an extent. It was a very good concert, by the master.